Prosecuting ICE Looks Like the Start of a Civil War

As I noted in an article a few days ago, Dem Officials are Incentivizing Anti-ICE Violence, Dem cities are pushing law enforcement to confront ICE personnel. The next stage is pretty obvious. Trying to arrest federal law enforcement personnel.

Manhattan DA Bragg Says He’s Looking at Prosecuting ICE Agents – Bloomberg

JB Pritzker Looking at Prosecuting ICE Agents in Chicago – Newsweek

Can San Francisco police arrest ICE agents who defy California’s mask law? – San Francisco Chronicle

That last one is from Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the Berkeley law school, who argues that…”federal officers, including ICE agents, can be sued or prosecuted for violating state law unless those actions unduly interfere with the federal government’s operations.”

Chemerinsky goes on to argue that courts may decide that wearing masks is unreasonable, but that’s nonsense. If DHS tells ICE personnel to wear masks, that’s not their ‘unreasonable’ behavior, it’s the mandate from a federal agency, which can be fought as a matter of litigation, but not as a criminal one.

This is not a matter of cities or states finding any specific form of behavior by ICE personnel unreasonable, but states and cities declaring themselves to be ‘sanctuaries’ where a certain form of federal law did not apply.

Then having those states and cities actively forbid their law enforcement personnel from cooperating with federal law enforcement.

And then actively inciting and supporting harassment and riots against federal law enforcement.

Finally passing laws trying to limit the ability of federal law enforcement enforcing those specific laws in their ‘sanctuaries’.

Now they’re trying to get to the final pre-civil war stage by authorizing local law enforcement to interfere with and arrest federal law enforcement enforcing those specific laws.

This is just a slower way to get to Fort Sumter in which states assert their immunity from and authority over federal personnel.

That’s how we got a civil war last time. And that’s how we may get there this time.